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- When the President of India is kidnapped by Kashmiri terrorists in Locarno, Switzerland, an Indian secret agent is sent to find him and set him free. With the help of an Indian singer he will make the "Impossible" to complete the mission.
- Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.
- Pinky alias Pooja Malhotra (Kareena Kapoor) and Karan (Tusshar Kapoor) are childhood sweethearts. During this time they exchange vows that they will live for each other only. They separate shortly after but they do not forget their vows. Pooja frantically searches for her sweetheart, but to no avail. She finally decides to write her own story in a the form of a love story. This story turns out to be very popular, and Pooja does get to meet Karan, only to find out that he has a girlfriend by the name of Seema.
- A taxi driver, a police woman, and a barkeeper are stealing a safe from a drug kingpin, soon realizing that he and his goon are after them to get it back, while the taxi driver sets up his own escape plan.
- The orphan boy Heintje lives with his aunt, who neglects him badly. He much prefers to be with the racing stable owner Teichmann and his horses. While Teichmann is in Switzerland, Heintje is put in a youth home by his aunt, but manages to escape secretly and makes his way to his fatherly friend. On the journey he melts all adult hearts with his singing, but there is still danger: a gang of smugglers abuses him as an unsuspecting courier, and Hanna, a woman from the youth welfare office, is supposed to ship him back to the home. Luckily, she turns out to be Teichmann's former girlfriend, with whom she promptly gets back together. Together they adopt Heintje.
- An inside look at the life of Ian Thorpe, his return to professional swimming and journey to the 2012 London Olympics.
- Trophy wife Carola loves to spend her husband Bernhard's money until he puts an end to it. She leaves him to prove that she can earn her own living. Star author Tex hires her as his chauffeur - not because of her skills but her looks.
- The moving and at times heartbreaking humorous story of a father and daughters' journey to get to know each other, whilst simultaneously forgetting what bonded them in the first place.
- Ten men get tested by ruthless exec Sara, to be her peculiar assistant.
- After singer Eric's wife Sonja has died in a car crash he refuses to make any public appearances, even though his producer threatens legal action. Then Eric meets and is fascinated by journalist Eva because she is a dead ringer for Sonja.
- An aged Diva, sent to an an elderly's home and a former constructionist who waits there for his death are the two poles between those the microcosm of the "Old Fools" evolves. The Diva has got a daughter who cares, the constructionist a nephew who wants to inherit. The rest of the inhabitants seem to have settled with fate comfortably and get roused up a little while the two main characters move towards each other. Withdrawl in old age, handling of loss, life without acknowledgment by the surrounding world and young ones with or against old ones are the themes of the movie. Between laughter and maybe a secret tear the movie reflects the altercation with the last stage of life in a humorous and encouraging way.
- Fifteen directors each made their own short films under supervision of Bela Tarr. A re-interpretation of spaces in and around Locarno (city, cable car, Val Bavona, Corippo).
- The Formichiere (Anteater) is a serial killer, while Will is a policeman with a shameful secret in his past. Only a mad judge of souls like the Formichiere would know how to reveal, in a tension-filled finale, Will's true nature.
- A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her in Switzerland, and Georges (Roger Treville) follows Betty.
- Stories about artificial light from three centuries telling anecdotes about the former sights to our world. Words, sounds and pictures seem to be indepen dent, disconnected as the appearance of light itself, if you try to understand it. But they are woven into each other. Following their own logical construction. Looking back at the old times of celluloid the shadows in these images, where one sees the grain, tell more stories than bright and short cut pictures. Take a walk in a town that seems to be silent - that is made out of parts of different towns. Views that make you curious to discover the world at night in front of your doors. Streets, passages, housing and industrial areas - details and perspectives, which remain unre-garded during the day, tell stories in their shadows and reflexions, which appear at night. Surfaces, which seem to be built for a movie and are set alive by light and filmstock. Macro images of lightsources bring closer the im-materiality of light. A subjective world made out of stories, music and images.
- Born and raised in the United States, which he traveled extensively "on the road" through 35 states, Walter Togni returned to Ticino Switzerland, his parents' homeland. In the last chapter of his life, together with his artist cousin Gianmario, he chases unlikely dreams of wealth. He will find, at least, his Verzasca root a valley on the Swiss Italian part of Switzerland.
- 9 year old girl Sara wakes up in a six metres wide and eight long pit, with 18 others who are hiding in a house construction foundation from a dangerous auto-firing robot - Shall Sara survive the hollow by discovering the truth of the war?
- The strange day of an unemployed man who just wanted to iron. Instead: a mysterious woman obsessively asking for ten minutes of his time, an erotic phone call, a missing cat and a weird but charming high school girl who may not even exist.
- A conversation with Alexander J. Seiler about his lifework as a film author.
- Born as a relatively modest project, the documentary, on a shoe-string budget, has become a much bigger item thanks to it's promoter Marco Ottini, Head of the Civil Protection Trainer Department of Bellinzona-Switzerland, and to Alberto Engeli, who propelled the enthusiasm of all the staff involved in the project. There were 5 TV crews rolling at the same time on different locations in order to document every angle of this simulation: the rescue team at work, the ambulance rides,the police, the firemen the coordination headquarters, the civil protection, etc. Everybody, from the paramedics to the railroad staff, was involved in the staged action giving the film an impressive reality look. The real-life sequences of the film were interwoven with a fictional plot following a group of people going from a peaceful day to the sudden emergency of a catastrophe.
- During the night two people accidentally meet in the parking lots of a gas station and discover that they live a very similar situation despite being at a different point in their life path.
- Eleven teams of two people travel from Los Alamitos, California to Stechelberg, Switzerland. At Locarno, they take a death-defying leap at the Road Block.